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We don't need reddit, reddit needs us. Just move on and be done with the platform. Just create new habits with Lemmy and reddit should slowly fade away from your mind. If we give alternatives some time, I'm sure great content will emerge and crazy shit like the three days no poop challenge will happen more over time.
I am personally very optimistic.
three days no poop challenge
The hell happened here?
The answer is to use Fediverse alternatives to Reddit and Twitter.
What a wild idea...
twitter 👎 reddit 👎 meta 👎 alphabet 👎
You forgot Amazon (Twitch)
Dear God, to wasn't FAANG all along. All fear MARTA!
The solution is to ditch Reddit altogether.
should've stopped a long time ago. I've been off everything but reddit for years and now I'm here.
we need to respond to things fucking us over quicker. Blizzard, the public transit system in America, Reddit, Twitter, Blizzard, the United States.
we give these cunts too much wiggle room
With things like Blizzard it's "easy". I don't NEED Diablo 4. I'd like it, but i'm not going to get it out of principle. But Reddit is different. I don't need it as a social media platform or to post myself, but for me, a huge portion of relevant online search results are from reddit. I pretty much run into tech and non-tech issues on a daily basis that are only documented or solved by a years old reddit post. And i'm pretty sad to see that go. Not the social part of reddit, but having so much condensed knowledge in a single place.
And while lemmy is nice it isn't an alternative until i can move instances and subscribe to communities without having a pending status for weeks. You also can't search online for lemmy because of motörhead and because every instance names itself.
I would argue reddit shouldn't have been used for tech stuff and troubleshooting as much as it was. Neither should discord for that matter.
For this purpose wikis and old-school forums worked well. I hope we go more back to that.
should we just quit using these sites or what?
Yes.
Are they?
Teddit uses his own "Unofficial API" for scrapping.
I've posted here a list of Reddit apps that will continue to work https://lemmy.ml/comment/1054018
Because I don't want to feed your addiction I will not let you know which 3rd party apps will work because FUCK SPEZ nobody should ever go back lol.
Damn, check out this guy with his fancy embedded meme into his comment.
Teddit doesn't hold any data. It's "data" was reddit. It's developers think that when you use the free key for 60 requests per second, that it will probably be enough.
Libreddit is trying to use the private Reddit API . Which is currently being used by the official Reddit app.
Running Teddit using a free key seems fairly usable, as long as you are self hosting an instance. Libreddits's approach tries to bring back the old situation
Projects will deviate and find ways to be useful again.
Yes; I highly doubt any of these projects are truly "dead", they just need to figure out the best ways to scrape these services.
Teddit use an unofficial API https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit they don't relay on reddit.
If I want to still be able to look at the works of my favorite artists, photographers and animators, I will unfortunately have to use it to some extent. Some of them also post on other platforms like pixiv, which allows you to look at content without an account. If there is any other way to look at their content, I do, but some are Twitter exclusive unfortunately.
People will naturally follow their favorite artists and will want to interact with them. If you could somehow convince the creators to post on a free and open alternative, I would not have any problem completely deleting my Twitter account.
In the case of Reddit, I would delete my Reddit account if I knew that all the rock hounders, bug identifiers, mineral photographers and crochet enthusiasts were here.
So, what now? If you are able to, create content that people are interested in and post in exclusively on free and open alternatives. If you have any useful skills or know-how, help people on free and open alternatives with their questions and problems. That is how I got into Twitter and Reddit at least. Maybe it will work for others too.
And most importantly: be nice. Don't downvote people's comments and posts for no reason. Don't leave toxic comments. Say Thank you, give people compliments, provide constructive criticism and try to be helpful.
Wait nitter is dead too?
Yes unfortunately Twitter did that yesterday. Hopefully they will be able to scrape the content somehow anyway (apparently Twitter still allows googlebot to crawl their Tweets, so maybe Nitter will just disguise as a googlebot)
Lemmy
Dance party obviously. Don't know why that wasn't your first thought.
We'll live. Long live the fediverse (and old-school forums)
BTW: was there ever or is there any sort of listing for all sorts of hobbyist or thematic forums? The main reason I never used many of them was because I never came across them and admittedly it was pretty easy to do that in reddit just by typing r/doesacommunityforthistopicexist
edit: is there some similar listing for mastodon? I'm having trouble finding a type of technical-oriented crowd.
Yes, there are a couple of websites that categorise and provide searching for communities across the Lemmyverse.
https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html
There's a bunch more too.
It gives us the great joy of saying "fuck 'em"
is that it? should we just quit using these sites or what?
Yes.
Going to miss nitter especially because twitter requiring sign in, guess I'll use google cache for reddit or just try not to look at the links
libreddit is still working for me
yes, exactly
We should strive to use/promote privacy-friendly and foss alternatives ( fediverse in general ) like Mastodon or Lemmy.
Youtube is also blocking invidious and Piped. Frontends are no end solution. The only solution can be the fediverse. But you can use these services with a good ad blocker
NewPipe (on Piped technology) is working fine here? As long as YT isn't behind a login they will keep working. If they do put it behind login, tbf they'll likely find way around it again sooner or later.
I agree that front-ends are always in an endless fight against these Big Tech solutions. But for content not available on other platforms it's an necesity and a better solution than simply an adblocker. And sadly it'll take a long time before content moves away, Average Joe isn't really worried about Google as much as they are about the cons of moving away from YT.
Less traffic for them, just don't use their shit anymore!